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Definition
firmly within
in various senses, including:
- firmly stuck into — as a thorn into a finger
- enclosed within — as a fossil within a rock
- implanted as a part — sometimes specifically of a reporter living with a military unit
- The button was a dot the size of a toast crumb, embedded in a tiny plug of yellow plastic.p. 191.5
- Nancy collected some pieces of sterilized liver and spleen that were embedded in wax blocks, and she put the blocks in a Styrofoam cup to take back to Fort Detrick for analysis.p. 242.1
- It is embedded with stone logs, the remains of a tropical rain forest that was swept up in the eruption and buried in ash and mud.p. 399.9
There are no more uses of "embedded" in The Hot Zone.
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